Pelt stretcher



May 18 1926. 1,585,053

C. A. STRONG FELT STRETCHER Filed April 50, 1925 awn/whoa 6. A QSZTOflj a a I r V E rag a: ees Patented 18, 19 525, v v u e 'al ii d d ii series CLARENCE A. STRONG, OF ONEILL, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOE OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES M. DAIFY, OF ONEILL, NEBRAfBKA.

FELT STRETCHER.

Application filed April 30, 1925. Serial No. 26,978.

1" v invention aims to provide an excepperecl ends or" the slats 1 and 2 will be later- 1 land ir=e;; iensive, yet a very ally spread. The front end of the slat 10 client and. easily operated deis preferably somewhat pointed as indicated vice tor stretching pelts from all tor-hearing at 11, "for engagement with the cartilo' oii course understood that age of the pelt, to assist in longit :dinally must he made in different stretching the latter. After this Wedge slot has been forced into the desired position, oin in vie/v the inventioi it is locked by any desired means, but pre'f- G0 iereinerably by a nail 12 driven into it and eescripthrough the strips 5.

The device is excep onally sin'iple and intion bein supplemented iiig dra-Wihg. ezzoensive, may be readily constructed i-rom Figure 1 is a side elevation. materials easily obtained by any trapper,

Figures 2, o and il. are detail sectional will he very eliicient and durable, and may views on lines 2 2, and i: or 1* 1. he easily connected wlth or disconnected In the drawing above hri efiy described, from a pelt, Without any danger 0tinjurthe numerals 1 and 2 designate two Wooden ing the latter in any manner.

slats, each of which is trans ersely tapered Excellent results have been obtained troni'm as shown in Fig. 4. These slats er also the exact details disclosed they are preferably tapered longitudinally to protherefore preferably ttollovved. However,

vide each one with a rather pointed, tapered vithin the scope of the invention a ciuimed, end 3 and With a butt end Secured to Sllfl'liil mod iicetions ms 7 of? course he made opposite sides of the butt end 4: of slot 1, I claim: 7 are two Wooden strips 5, nails 6 being pref- A pelt stretcher comprising two relatively erahly provided for secu ing said strips and move. le Wooden slats disp seel in a common the 1 tog ther. The strips 5 project plane and spacec apart laterally, each slot laterally in one direction from the slat 1, having butt end and tapered end, a pair extend across the opposite sides or" the slat of straight itrips transveis to said slats at so 2,and have their o ter ends secured by i ails the butt enos of the latter, said stips he or the lit '4' against opposite sides of 2 ing secured to opposite sides oi? one said spacing lilocli'fl. This block and the porslats and extending across the sides oi and. t he of the strips 5, projecting. lati beyond the otherslat, a spacer to which the from the slat 1, "form a lateral guide outer ends 01".. aid strips are secured to form therewith e. guide in which said other slat is ireey movable toward and "from said one slat, means for securing the movable slat Witl'i respect to said guide after has been late which the hntt end oi"- the slat tree;

to th slats 1 and 2, one end of soil he retried by manually :oreing the en of the slot 2 away from the slai ital i nnnin the above named guioo. Then, ery slai l l id portion. o pelt, any preferred means, but iireteretly and a l a] inserleiil hell 9 driven through the strips 5 and the through is slat 9:, the sitter may be secured. against rertetionar The turn to its initial position. Then, to spread tor has l ired, said Wedge the tapered ends 2-3 of he slats 1 and 2 a. (l adaptec. to spread the tapered ends stretch the other end of the pelt, 1 prov dreiatively stationary and a Wedge slat 10 which is insertahle between and being ot a length to project he or the trips 5 and hetween the slots 1 and tapered ends for engagement n'i This wedge slat is adapted to contact with of the pelt. 1.00 the inner edges of the slats 1 and 2, only In testimony Whereot l have hereunto at at the tapered ends of the latter as shown in fixed my signature.

1 and it will thus be seen that when p it is forced in a proper direction, said ta- CLARENCE A. STRQhTQ. 

